Fragile Innocence is the story of a child devastated by pure chance. This moving narrative of a father?s journey to understand and accept the profound changes in his daughter?s life is at once memoir, biography, mystery, and drama, all centered around one remarkable young woman who cannot talk or read or understand language, but who has touched almost... more...

Written by nearly 100 international leaders in the field, this new edition progresses logically with major sections on the basic mechanisms of the disease, classification, epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, and age-related syndromes of epilepsy. The core of the new third edition is its completely updated section on antiepileptic drugs, including an... more...

There is an unprecedented demand for scientific evidence in child and adolescent mental health. Finding the Evidence is a unique resource that provides busy clinicians with rapid access to the best available secondary research evidence. This second edition is an essential tool for clinicians and includes: a simple guide to searching for research evidence;... more...

This international report is the fourth from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, a WHO collaborative cross-national study, and the most comprehensive. It presents the key findings on patterns of health among young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 41 countries and regions across the WHO European Region and North America in 2005/2006.... more...

This e-book is the culmination of several years of fruitful cooperation between scholars from Europe and the USA. A selection of the best peer reviewed articles are now included in this e-book on Policing and provision of safety/security in South-East Europe, with some emphasis on new managerialism from the UK, which mainly influences other European... more...

With its 60 articles on some 200 terms, the dictionary provides a description of the individual concepts in which 17 th and 18 th century thinking on language was represented in texts. Account is taken not only of the synchronic perspective and the continuation of tradition, but also of the epochal dynamics which made it possible for 17... more...